PBS Infinite Series
Mathematician Kelsey Houston-Edwards offers ambitious content for viewers that are eager to attain a greater understanding of the world around them. Math is pervasive - a robust yet precise language - and with each episode you’ll begin to see the math that underpins everything in this puzzling, yet fascinating, universe.
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Episodes - Season 1
A Breakthrough in Higher Dimensional Spheres
How do you stack hundred-dimensional oranges? Learn about recent breakthroughs in our understanding of hyperspheres in the first episode of Infinite S...
Are Prime Numbers Made Up?
Is math real or simply something made up by mathematicians? You can’t physically touch a number yet using numbers we’re able to build skyscrapers ...
How Many Humans Have the Same Number of Body Hairs?
Do two people on the planet have the exact same number of body hairs? How about more than two? There’s a simple yet powerful mathematical principle ...
A Hierarchy of Infinities
There are different sizes of infinity. It turns out that some are larger than others. Mathematician Kelsey Houston-Edwards breaks down what these diff...
Can You Solve the Poison Wine Challenge?
You’re about to throw a party with a thousand bottles of wine, but you just discovered that one bottle is poisoned! Can you determine exactly which ...
Can We Hear Shapes?
Mathematician Mark Kac asked the question “Can we hear the shape of a drum?” It was a question that took over 20 years to answer. Sine waves, fund...
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